To specifically answer your question, yes, you have to make a template first to follow with the router. But go to the router forum Ken suggested. It's a great place and you will learn a lot...................and just like this forum, ask a question and then brace yourself for all the answers and opinions.

Chris

The tension between what is good enough and what is beyond that creates the space for character to become our work.

Heikki, you very near the land of BOSCH...my recommendation is to get one with exchangable bases...One fat base and a plunge base...soft start and variable speeds are excellent features as well...'course the caravan guys you are hangin' with may have some Yurro based suggestions......
madjack

...I have come to believe that, conflict resolution, through violence, is never acceptable.....................mj

Heikki, there are LOTSSA stuff you can do with a router...you might wanna subscribe to a magazine dedicated to routers for awhile, at least till you get a basic understanding of what a router can do...here is one I found on Google, that is out of the UK... http://www.thegmcgroup.com/item--The-Ro ... R1001.htmlmadjack

...I have come to believe that, conflict resolution, through violence, is never acceptable.....................mj

madjack wrote:Heikki, you very near the land of BOSCH...my recommendation is to get one with exchangable bases...One fat base and a plunge base...soft start and variable speeds are excellent features as well...'course the caravan guys you are hangin' with may have some Yurro based suggestions......madjack

Yup We have them Bosch machines here and they are quite popular...
I,ll remember what you said when I go take a look see.

Thanks Madjack

PS Looks like I be gettin deeper and deeper with this contagious teardrop fever.... ahhhhhh shucks... Wife says well .. at least it,ll keep you nearby the house....

Heikki I only had a smattering of router experience before I built my trailer. Now, I can't live without one. I made a full sized template and cut it out with a pattern bit, a bit with a ball bearing. Bushings and collars will do the same thing.

asianflava wrote:Heikki I only had a smattering of router experience before I built my trailer. Now, I can't live without one. I made a full sized template and cut it out with a pattern bit, a bit with a ball bearing. Bushings and collars will do the same thing.

Ive always passed the isles that had the routers and fancy power tools
and thought Id never need one. Boy Ohhh Boy I was wrong.....
And now I wish I had them all...

Heikki...once you find just how useful a router is, you'll wonder how you lived without one...but then I do a fair amount of woodworking...and there is no such thing as "a" router...next thing you know...you'll have another...I have 4....3 good ones and 1 beater so when someone wants to borrow one...that's what they get. Doug